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The 2D Metroid games are side-scrollers, and the 3D Metroid Prime series gives the player a first-person perspective, [1] while Other M is a third-person shooter with the ability to switch to first-person view. [2] Metroid is one of Nintendo's most successful franchises, with over 17 million copies sold by September 2012. [3]
The original Metroid was influenced by two other major Nintendo franchises: Mario, from which it borrowed extensive areas of platform jumping, and The Legend of Zelda, from which it borrowed non-linear exploration. [3] Metroid differed in its atmosphere of solitude and foreboding. [3] Metroid was also one of the first video games to feature an ...
Metroid is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Samus Aran in sprite-rendered two-dimensional landscapes. [failed verification] [1] [2] [3] The game takes place on the planet Zebes, a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus as she travels through the planet's caverns and ...
The remake is done in the style of Metroid: Zero Mission, [4] [5] adding a map system, new areas, mini-bosses, upgrades originally introduced in Super Metroid, redone graphics and music, an updated artificial intelligence for enemies, and a log system similar to Metroid Prime. [6]
Her health, stock of weapons and a gridded mini-map are displayed on the top of the screen. Super Metroid is a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game, [2] [3] which primarily takes place on the fictional planet Zebes from the original game—a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators.
Metroidvania [a] is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997).
The ported version of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has a different aspect ratio, changed from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen, and allows for the targeting reticle to be aimed anywhere on the screen using the Wii Remote. Metroid Prime: Trilogy is a video game compilation which includes Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Retro Studios, Inc. is an American video game developer and subsidiary of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas.The studio is best known for its work on the Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong series and has contributed to several other Nintendo-developed projects, such as Mario Kart 7.